VATICAN CITY : The Pope Goes East
Pope John Paul II goes on the road again Wednesday for an 11-day journey through four countries in Asia. The Pope’s first trip outside Europe since 1993 takes him first to Manila, where he will attend his church’s International Youth Day ceremonies. From there, the 74-year-old leader of the world’s more than 1 billion Roman Catholics will travel to Papua New Guinea, Australia and Sri Lanka before returning to the Vatican.
In each nation, he will preside at ceremonies setting a Catholic, the first in each, on the road to sainthood within the church.
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